Research and Planning: College magazine cover analysis

Here is a college magazine front cover. The target audience of the college magazine is college students. I believe that the target audience is college students because of the image and the title as it 1is titled 'College'. From this magazine I would like to copy the main image to show that it is a college magazine and to have a big title so people have an understanding of what the magazine is about. I would also like to copy the sub headings as it tells the user what the main stories are in the magazine. The types of stories that are shown on the magazine are popular stories that are aimed towards the target audience for example, "Why we love Blackberry" is a story that is on the front cover. Blackberry is a phone company and the phones that were produced were popular at the time the college magazine was made.

Ideas that I have gathered from the magazine are that I need to implement a big image linking to the title of the magazine e.g. a college student with the title to have something to do with college. I would also use a different select of colours that match like the black and yellow which contrast well together. When I create my college magazine I need to have two colours that contrast well like on the image above with the black and yellow.

Here is a college contents page. The target audience of this contents page is college students. I think that the target audience is college students is because some of the main articles are based at college students e.g. the 'University' and 'College activities & club'. From this contents page I would like to copy parts of it when I create my college magazine contents page. The things that I would like to copy are to have a list of articles that link to the front cover of the magazine. I would also use the same colours that have been used on the front cover so that it is the same and looks more professional. I would also have images that link to the articles like on the image above with the contents page. I would pick stories that would be popular for college students and hopefully people would enjoy it because it links to them and make them more interested in reading the magazine.

Ideas that I have gathered from the contents page is that I need to have articles that link and are relevant to the college. I need colours that are the same as the front cover so that it looks more professional. I also need images that link to the articles that are on the contents page like on the image above.